BURLINGTON, Ont. – Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd., a leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company, announced a new five-year strategic partnership with the Vector Institute, an independent, not-for-profit corporation driving research excellence and leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) to foster economic growth and improve the lives of Canadians.
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TORONTO – Walter Wodchis (pictured), PhD, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, has been awarded a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) worth nearly $1.5 million to lead a national study identifying strategies for successful implementation of primary health care teams.
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HALIFAX – Ten Dalhousie researchers will share close to $6 million in Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funding designed to elevate ideas with the greatest potential to improve human health. The new research supported through the Project Grants Fall 2021 competition will focus on topics such as counteracting hearing and sight loss, exploring the causes of epilepsy and intellectual disability, incorporating Indigenous knowledge into medical practices, and creating a better understanding of what influences our mental health.
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TORONTO – DNAstack has announced Viral AI, a federated network for genomic variant surveillance and infectious disease research. Viral AI was designed to deliver equitable access to software infrastructure, accelerate international data sharing, and empower scientists and public health officials with globally representative datasets they need to mitigate current and future infectious disease outbreaks.
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LONDON, Ont. – A new study from Lawson Health Research Institute will be the first to explore Canadian Veterans’ beliefs about confidentiality in mental health care and whether those beliefs act as a barrier to seeking treatment for a type of trauma known as moral injury.
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VANCOUVER – As scientists and governments grapple with new variants two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, an international research team led by the University of British Columbia’s Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) have unlocked a trove of data that could help prevent future pandemics.
The project is called Serratus. “Our singular goal was to discover every coronavirus in the world,” said Artem Babaian (pictured), the project lead.
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TORONTO – Canada’s top 40 research hospitals, hospital networks and health authorities devoted a combined $3.06 billion to research in Fiscal 2020, a substantial gain of 5.8% over Fiscal 2019, according to Research Infosource Inc., which released its annual Top 40 Research Hospitals ranking. The overall research spending gain was led by a rise of 20% in research spending at national leader, Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN), where outlays expanded to $490 million.
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OTTAWA – The Government of Canada unveiled the results of the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) 2020 Transformation stream competition. Administered by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council under the strategic guidance of the Canada Research Coordinating Committee, the NFRF Transformation stream supports large-scale, interdisciplinary research projects focused on addressing major challenges with potentially far-reaching impacts, in terms of scientific breakthroughs and applied economic, environmental or health outcomes.
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MONTREAL – The Neuro-CERVO Alliance for Drug Discovery (NCADD), a new partnership between The Neuro at McGill University and the CERVO Brain Research Centre of the CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale, affilitated with l’Université Laval, was awarded $7 million in funding over three years from the Ministry of Economy and Innovation, through its Fonds d’accélération des collaborations en santé, administered by the Quebec Biopharmaceutical Research Consortium (CQDM). This funding will be matched by private and philanthropic funds to bring the total amount of funding of the NCADD partnership to $15.32 million.
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MONTREAL – The Opal Health Informatics Group at the RI-MUHC is proud to announce the launch of an ambitious new project – the Quebec SmartCare Consortium. Thanks to generous funding from the Health Collaborations Accelerator Fund of the Quebec Ministry of Economy and Innovation and private partners Roche, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada, the McGill University Health Centre Foundation and the Cedars Cancer Foundation, this three-year project will bring together a powerful group of public and private healthcare organizations in Quebec, with the goal of demonstrating the efficiency of a solution to digitize all healthcare interactions and make all personal healthcare data accessible to patients by 2030.
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